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Letters Patent No. 73,158, dated January 7, 17868.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM`BENNETT, ot' Rushville, in the county of Rush, and State of Indiana, have invented a new and improved Attachment. for Plough-s; and I do herehydeclare thatzthe following is a full and exact description thereof', which will enable others skilled in the art to mukelanduse the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

Y This invention relates to a new and useful attachment for corn or cultivat0r-ploughs, for the purpose of preventing the mould-board or share from casting clods of earth upon the plants during the process of ploughing the same. In the accompanying sheet of drawings'- Figure 1 is a sideview of a plough having my improvement applied to it.

Figure 2, -a plan or top view oi the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

A representsthe beam of the plough, the standard, C the share, and D the handles thereof'. These parts may be constructed in the usual way, andthereiore do not require a special description. Transversely on the beam A'there is placed a sliding bar, E, which works in a socket, Ffthe latter, as well as the sliding bar,4

being of metal; that, at least, would be `the preferable material. The bar Eis allowed to slide or work freely in the socket F, and in one end of said bar there is fitted a pendent bar, G, having aplate or fender, H, secured 'to its lower end. This pendent bar G is secured in the bar E by means of a wedge or other means, which will admit of the bur G and fender H being adjusted higher or lower, as may be desired, to suit the height of the plough to which they may be applied. The fender H is at one side of the share C, a short distance' from it, and the bar E is braced from the front of the beam A by a rod, I, and also braced by another rod, J, which serves as a spring as well as a brace, in consequence of being attached rigidly to the beam, instead of by a joint, a, as the rod I.

As the plough is drawn along the row of plants, with the fender between the latter and the share C, the fender prevents the share from throwing clods of earth upon the plants; and in ca se of a heavy clod striking, it yields or gives, being forced outward, owing to its attachment to the sliding-bar E; the spring J throwing the fender back to its original position afterit has passed the clod. rIhis yielding movement of the fender prevents it from injury, causes the plough to run steadier than it otherwise would, while it protects the plants from clods of earth equally as well as therigid fenders hitherto used.

I do not claim broadly the application of a fender to a plough, for they-have been previously used; but

I do claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. The vertically-adjustable fender II, attached tothe bar E, sliding in the guide F, when such bar is attached to the spring J, whose forward end is secured to the beam A in such a manner that the fender vshall yield to a clod of earth, and be thrown into the 'proper position by the spring J, after passing such clod, as herein shown and describedfor the purpose specified.'

2. The spring J', when secured to the sliding har E, bearing the pendent armG and fender H, i'or the puri pose of allowing a yielding movement to the fender when brought in eontactwith clods of earth, as herein shown and described.

WILLIAM BENNETT.

Witnesses.: V

LEVI H. STEPHENS, F. M. BENNETT. 

